a16z Podcast: A Guide to Making Data-Based Decisions in Health, Parenting... and Life
with Emily Oster (@ProfEmilyOster) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread)
Are chia seeds actually that good for you? Will Vitamin E keep you healthy? Will breastfeeding babies make them smarter? There’s maybe no other arena where understanding what the evidence truly tells us is harder than in health… and parenting. And yet we make decisions based on what we hear about in studies like the ones listed above every day. In this episode, Brown University economics professor Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better and the recently released book Cribsheet: A Data-driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed…
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